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Poplar 1917

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Poplar, Metropolitan Borough]

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For failing to comply with the requirements of the Margarine Acts,
three vendors were fined respectively, £4 and 21s. costs; £5 and 21s.
costs; and £2 and 21s. costs, while under the Food and Drugs Acts
two milks, upon analysis, proved to be adulterated, and the vendor
was. fined £1 and 21s. costs and £10 and 21s. cost, respectively.
Factories, workshops, workplaces, out-workers' premises, milk shops,
dairies, cow sheds, slaughter-houses, eating houses, bakehouses, ice
cream shops, hairdressers, market places and stalls, and the L.C.C.
schools have been frequently visited and the premises have been found
to be in clean state.
Large quantities of unsound food have been destroyed, and the
residue being used for cattle feeding. >
I am, Sir,
Your obedient Servant,
H. J. LANGLEY,
Cert. Sanitary Inspector Exam. Board.
Lond. 1891 ; also Cert. Sanitary Inspector
Royal San. Inst. ; 1875 Act;
Inspector under the Sale of Food and
Drugs Acts, and Canal Boats Act,
Bromley North Division.